It's not that it is not strong enough. I am more worried about rigidity and later getting some rather annoying resonances and vibrations . A rather acute problem with FG fuselages, that tend to act like resonating violin cases.

My fan housing is a bit bigger than the ducting adapter supplied by CMP.

So the front piece had to be cut (as in the Hawk / T-45), and the back piece had to be cut, shortened and re-glued together.

The motor wires have to come out the side, otherwise they won't fit later under the belly fan hatch.

your flap runs down Very slow? is that the norm on all your setup?
i always have mine on two settings, slow but not as slow as yours
i see also the inlet on the fan is not line up! Just like mine! is that OK?

If there are no pitch changes, you can drop them slow or fast ... If there are some pitch changes it helps to slow them down a bit ... I have it kind of scale, I find it cool. You can adjust the speed of course to your liking.

I usually put the flaps down on the last downwind leg. I prefer a slower gradual flap drop and, yes that's what I have sometimes (Hawk is same way). On the Me-262 there's no delay though.

Yes that fan inlet setup is not that great, but should be ok I think. No, it's definitely not perfect. I am still studying the thrust angle issue a bit.

It took me some work to get that fan hatch to conform to the fuse, I used silicone, hope it sticks for a while

If there are no pitch changes, you can drop them slow or fast ... If there are some pitch changes it helps to slow them down a bit ... I have it kind of scale, I find it cool. You can adjust the speed of course to your liking.

I usually put the flaps down on the last downwind leg. I prefer a slower gradual flap drop and, yes that's what I have sometimes (Hawk is same way). On the Me-262 there's no delay though.

Yes that fan inlet setup is not that great, but should be ok I think. No, it's definitely not perfect. I am still studying the thrust angle issue a bit.

It took me some work to get that fan hatch to conform to the fuse, I used silicone, hope it sticks for a while

Imo as long the airflow is smooth inside the tubs, it should be fine
A lots of edf jets have all kinds of bends with their intakes!
where did you endup putting the ESC and Rx?